Software supply chain risk used to have a fairly contained definition: open-source packages, build pipelines, and the occasional compromised maintainer account. AI agents have changed that. An agent assembles capability at runtime, pulling in models, MCP servers, libraries, code, tools, skills, and plugins, then acts on its findings. Agents operate at machine speed in parallelized…
To succeed today, CIOs must be strategic partners. It’s no longer something to work toward achieving. “What used to be an aspiration, having a seat at the table, that’s now needed,” says George Westerman, a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, founder of the Global Opportunity Forum, and co-chair of the MIT…
I have spent most of this year on planes. Seven countries, somewhere north of a hundred customer conversations, most of them with teams well past the pilot stage. The thing I keep coming back to is what changed between the January conversations and the July ones. In January and February, as agentic coding adoption climbed,…
Regulated industries have been dealing with the equivalent of sovereign data for a long time. And as the geopolitical situation makes it more broadly relevant, it doesn’t make it any easier to deal with. From concerns about the reach of the US CLOUD Act and what telemetry or sensitive business data gen AI models might…
This summer, our big concern as IT leaders was figuring out how to drive adoption and ROI for our AI purchases while keeping shadow AI at bay. My advice then: Give people transparent, sanctioned tools and put in place operational discipline to ensure the right tools are being deployed at the right times and in…
Technology maturity is generally considered a sign of progress. Organizations modernize their infrastructure and capabilities, introduce advanced analytics, and invest in AI, all with the expectation that these improvements will make the business more capable, efficient, and competitive. But there’s a paradox emerging in enterprise IT: The more sophisticated an organization’s technology environment becomes, the…
For much of the history of enterprise IT, technology itself was a limiting factor. Organizations had to make difficult choices about which systems they could afford and which capabilities were realistic to deploy. Technology leaders built their strategies around those constraints. Today, the challenge looks different. Cloud platforms, advanced analytics, automation, and AI have made…
Investors are pouring more into AI data center infrastructure than they can hope to recoup by 2030, according to Gartner. “Enterprise and consumer AI revenue will be insufficient to support profitable returns on all planned AI capital expenditures during this period,” said Gartner Senior Director Analyst Will Sommer. AI data center owners would need to…
On a major S/4HANA transformation, the first signs of trouble did not look like resistance. They looked like missed stand-ups. Then deliverables started slipping, readiness checkpoints came back with gaps and the same functional leads kept surfacing on the list of competing priorities. The people behind those signals were not disengaged. They were functional resources…
In a recent finance training session, an FP&A analyst took the prompting method we had covered twenty minutes earlier and applied it to a monthly variance report spanning four business units. The report normally took one and a half to two hours. It was finished in about two minutes, live, in front of the room.…